1983 Recommendations

The 1983 Photocopying Report of the Copyright Office made a number of "non-statutory" recommendations. One of these was:

        Finally, the Copyright Office called for clear recognition
        by all levels of government that publicly-owned libraries
        must be adequately funded so that these institutions
        will be able to pay their share of the necessary costs
        attendant to the creation and dissemination of
        copyright protected works.

I am not aware of anything being done by any level of government, including state and local governments. For a dozen years prior to this report, library funding was far below the needs of collections to keep up with publications. The years following have not been much better. In 1987, all higher education institutions together cut $110 million from library spending. All other categories, including unspent revenues, rose.

Can anyone fill me in, please?

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
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Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 21:04:01 GMT